Status Report on Transliteration and Transcription of Tibetan and Himalayan Languages

Last Updated: January 4, 2009.

The THL Wylie and THL Phonetics schemes are thoroughly documented, but there remain many schemes not documented at all for Tibetan, while the historical evolution of transcription and transliteration schemes for the other languages remains undocumented. We are planning to slowly add other schemes, especially for Tibetan.

If this status report appears out of date, please contact us at to request an update, and we will do it promptly. Limited staff resources and many projects will sometimes mean activity outstrips documentation.